Ohhh F*ck!!!!!!!

[grinder]

PM Me - i have  a deal for you

[jinx]

Very sorry to hear it is bent - but don\'t open that drivers\' door. Opening it might increase distortion you could get jigged straight if you repair it.  

Since you have the wreckage at home the assessor will come to you so I would not worry too much about stripping bits off it yet and you MUST get an independent assessor to come and look too.  My son\'s mate has just had his very tidy BMW written off by the insurer for the want of a £400 quid repair.  Sometimes they just look at the registration number and write them off based on age alone.  If it is written off:
1.  Refuse to pay salvage costs (They may ask you for these even though you got it home! - don\'t get me started on insurance companies)
2. Based on your independent assesors report you can make them an offer for the wreck. (It may be an \'uneconomic repair\' rather than genuinely terminal)  If your guy says it is repairable get costs and then you can get it cleared off the insurers register once its done and inspected.

I\'ve shovelled a few cars onto trailers in my time that have been saved and it sounds as though you have put alot into yours.  Don\'t give up yet!

Andrew

[kuddy]

I drove past you last night on the A57 (didn\'t stop because you were talking on your mobile and looked okay).
That section on the A57 is always slippy mate and I think you were just unlucky. Good job it wasn\'t a high speed bit.

[hotstepper1973]

wiggy glad you and your dad are ok cant believe it so very sad for you hope you get some good news.
Wow i am so gobsmacked i dont know what to say.Nice meeting you guys last night anyway

[wiggy]

I\'ve bitten the bullet ans told the insurance...

Couple of reasons for this...

A: After having a good look over the car is doesn\'t actuallt seem as bad as first thought. Panel lines all seem OK even on the front wing and the boot on the drivers side. Feeling under the sill the floor seems straight and in tact.

Now I know they will automatically try and say its a write off but the women on the phone told me if you want it repairing be sure to tell the garage thats coming to take it away for assesment. So I am going to beg and pleed with them, if its repairable....DO IT!!

I have removed a few bits offit such as Power FC and deffi\'s I may removed the Apexi induction as well so if someone local has a spare std air box kicking around they want to donate and don\'t mind dropping it off I would be iternally greatful

IF they do say its a write off I am going to get Gareth to supply me with a nice jucy bill for the car saying I paid £8500 or something for it only 3 weeks ago, this way they can\'t really disspute its value. I know someone thats done this before and it worked for them, so worth a try. This also cuts out the hassle of getting crap offers and turning them down again and again.

If it is a write off, depending how fast I can get the cash off them I am going to probably buy the Red fast and furious one Gareth has on its way over  I ain\'t giving up that easy, I was just starting to get my head around the rex...

I was supprised just how many people did stop last night, women etc asking if we were OK, restored my faith in people a bit thats for sure.

I know what you mean about that section being slippy will be taking it a bit easier there in future thats for sure.....In fact I\'ll come down the M62-M6 next time

So, now I just need to wait for the garage to call for them to take away....Fingers crossed

Cheers all

[J4P RX]

Not that many people stopped when I had my accident, though the ambulance was there pretty quick so I guess people wouldnt bother after that.

What pissed my off though was seeing a post on a Honda Forum of someone saying they saw my car after the accident (on its roof)with the driver still stuck inside it.  I was pretty mad and I dont know how I resisted signing up to hurl abuse at them for seeing that and not helping me out the thing.

[scooby_si]

i had someone stop (not including the copper) although that was mainly cause he\'d run over me warnign triangle & got a flat tyre, i mean as if having bent my car wasnt bad enough i had a crippled triangle lol (in heinseight! )
Si

[gsb876]

Lee,

they should have deffo stopped to help you buddy:reallymad

I saw a broken down scoobi on the A50 once and although not a fan i still stopped to see if i could do anything, which was handy as he\'d run out of water and i carry loads in the back:)

[J4P RX]

Originally posted by scooby_si
i had someone stop (not including the copper) although that was mainly cause he\'d run over me warnign triangle & got a flat tyre, i mean as if having bent my car wasnt bad enough i had a crippled triangle lol (in heinseight! )
Si

Cheers Si, thats the funny thing I have heard for ages :rollin

[Mart160plus]

Wiggy,

Just seen this, I\'m so sorry mate, if it\'d still been your GT-Four that might not of stopped either so don\'t blame the rex. Doubt you\'d be able to claim about the road surface either, if it was diesel the council will blame local lorries an absolve themselves of responsibility.
When I wrote off my GT-Four in April I bombarded the insurance company with printouts of similar cars and their prices from Autotrader, even before they had mentioned any costs, and in the end I got given just a few hundred quid below what I wanted, so take the initiative if it\'s written off. Two weeks later I only just missed out on buying the car back from an auction for £1600 !
You\'ll get it sorted, chin up though Manolo !

Mart.

[wiggy]

I won\'t even attempt to claim off the council, can\'t be arsed with another head ache, I already have one from the crash :rolleyes:

I am getin Gareth to sort me with a bill for the sale of the rex to me, I shall then forward this to the insurance company so they can\'t argue the fact its worth half what I paid 3 weeks ago. Hopefully this will then mean a swift payout...

I will also be telling the garage that comes for it I WANT IT BACK and I will be speaking to the insurance as well to conform this. I;ve done it before on my old RS turbo years ago. I got the car back within a few days and a cheque in the post 2 weeks later

Hopefully this will go as smoothly as that one did :rolleyes: I can then buy another rex and have a spares car

[Brett]

Yep I can vouch for not trying to claim off of the council.  Best I got out of \'em was not having to pay for a lamp post, they would give me nowt for the car.  (Twas their failure to clear the rd after a preivous accident that caused my blow out)

 Still I\'m glad you are ok and it sounds like it may just be panel damage.

[gsb876]

As heart breaking as it is, do you have any pics of the car after the crash??

The reason being if you are gonna break the rx people can see what there is to buy, i personelly do not want anything but just incase you were thinking it could give you a head start???

Sorry if inappropriate Wiggy, and sorry didn\'t see you last night someone said you were there but i didn\'t quite catch what you looked like, saw someone leaning against the car and guessed that were your dad??? we were inside having a drink with Grinder/jon/adrain/phil/freddy and a few others:(

[andrewrx7]

Sorry to read this....hope the car is still good enough to repair, though!

One thought .... if you do take stuff off the car before the insurance people look at it, could they not say "it is not as declared on your insurance" and try and back out of paying you for either repairs or write-off value? Not sure if they would do that, but it may give them an excuse to try to??

[wiggy]

I don\'t think they even check to be honest...

I did it on my RS turbo, was a std turbo as far as the insurance were concerned but it was far from it. Got took too a garage to be checked and assessed and I got it back, the garage even told my then insurance company it was worth more than market value